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Tufts made a brief run in the second half behind two juniors, 6-1 Dave Whitley and 5-8 Gerry Dubey. After five minutes of play, the Jumbos had clawed within 15 points at 55-40. As the few faithful Harvard fans nervously checked their laughter, Gustavson put on a personal scoring spree to clinch the verdict...
...does for Britain-the sort of waiter baiter who considers himself a gourmet because he speaks menu French and probably reads the food page in Playboy. And of course he is a martini crank ("vodka not gin, shaken not stirred"), a tailor's dummy (Benson, Perry and Whitley, 9 Cork Street, London W.1), and a blood sportsman who would rather hunt quail (Eunice Gay son) than Red birds...
This happy state of affairs is the consequence of the novel notions that Jones began to urge on Northrop almost from the day he joined the company. Within months after he was hired, Jones was invited by Northrop's late President Whitley Collins to help him reshape Northrop's whole way of doing business. Characteristically, scholarly Tom Jones began by combing through innumerable speeches by top U.S. Government officials, and detected a subtle but profound change in defense spending policy. Says Jones: "We came to the conclusion-it seems simple now, but remember that was the mid-1950s...
...Died. Whitley Charles Collins, 61, president of Northrop Aircraft, Inc.; of a circulatory ailment; in Los Angeles. A banker by training, Collins brought financial know-how to Northrop when he took over in 1954, in four years saw its sales rise from $171 million to $256 million...
...Joseph F. Finnegan, 51, was nominated for director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (TIME, Nov. 22), succeeding Whitley P. McCoy, who resigned. A graduate of Columbia ('28) and Fordham Law School ('31), Finnegan helped pay his way through school by writing a question-and-answer column for investors in the Wall Street Journal and working on Brooklyn piers as a cargo checker. After a three-year stint as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Manhattan, he joined a private law firm, and in 1948 hung out his own shingle. As background...